Pattern & Chaos: Bibliography, links and resources

Adorno, T. (1965) ‘Functionalism Today’, originally published as ‘Functionalismus Heute’ in Neue Rundschau 77/4 (1966), first published in English in Oppositions 17, Summer 1979, excerpt in Glenn Adamson (2010) The CraftReader. Oxford: Berg

“Multivalue logics are now gaining currency, and these are quite capable
of incorporating indeterminacy as a valid stepping-stone in the cognitive
process. In this general intellectual atmosphere, the poetics
of the open work is peculiarly relevant: it posits the work of art
stripped of necessary and foreseeable conclusions, works in which
the performer’s freedom functions as part of the discontinuity which
contemporary physics recognizes, not as an element of disorientation,
but as an essential stage in all scientific verification procedures
and also as the verifiable pattern of events in the subatomic world.”